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Originally Posted by Rain Man
What two channels does he watch?
1. tv land, but he's pretty much quit on that since they took Sanford and son off.(he says the new tv I got him doesn't show it...pissed)
2. whatever channel it is that has little house on the prairie and john-boy Walton.
And interesting story, by the way. With older folks like that, one wonders how diagnosis and treatment differed in their youth from today's world.
In my grandmother's family, two of the eight (or nine) kids had mental issues. I never met them, but looking at old photos one clearly had Down's Syndrome, but the other sounds like your uncle. He looked pretty normal but just had a very low level of functioning. The two of them lived together in the family's log cabin until they died sometime in the 60s or 70s, and I think other siblings would just keep an eye on them from a distance since they all lived in the vicinity.
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ernie worked cutting timber and working in a sawmill for awhile...says he was lucky to work there cause he was able to pay doctor bills when his dad got sick and died. I know he worked some in the lead mines down there too. they did the log cabin deal also...no water in the house, wood cookstove, newspaper for wallpaper, etc. If your grandmother was from around where you grew up, it wasn't too far from Ernie's home place.
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